Shelby Skrhak

Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

What You Should Be Doing Now to Get Ready for New Round of PPP Loan Funding

By Shelby Skrhak / April 22, 2020 /

Before the first round of funding ran out last week, Ebby Halliday agent Jason Bell had become the resident expert on Small Business Administration loans for friends and fellow agents who understandably had more questions than answers when applying for coronavirus relief. “It was a jumbled mess,” Bell says. In early April, the Plano Willow…

Find the Perfect Home for Empty Nesters in Grand Prairie’s Grand Peninsula

By Shelby Skrhak / April 21, 2020 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week is an affordable find in Grand Prairie‘s Grand Peninsula neighborhood, a master-planned enclave of homes located on Estes Peninsula of Joe Pool Lake. This 2008-built home features three bedrooms and two baths with 2,174-square-feet set on a single-story. This home is perfect for an empty nester looking for…

Construction Underway for The Metairie by Hawkins-Welwood

By Shelby Skrhak / April 20, 2020 /

Construction is underway for Southlake’s newest premium neighborhood, The Metairie by Hawkins-Welwood. The 29-acre luxury development will be located at White Chapel Blvd. and Dove Road in north Southlake, prime real estate where home values are some of the highest in DFW and the school district is among the best in the country. The Metairie…

5 Great Charles Dilbeck Homes to Kick Off Your Monday Right

By Shelby Skrhak / April 20, 2020 /

Charles S. Dilbeck, for you newbies to Dallas, was a prolific and eclectic architect in Dallas from 1935 to 1969. In a 1979 interview with urban planner Alan Mason, he said he was the first architect to develop a true Texas ranch house. While his peers O’Neil Ford and David Williams were besotted with the Hill Country…

This Updated Dutch Colonial in Highland Park Is a Looker in More Ways Than One

By Shelby Skrhak / April 18, 2020 /

If this home at 3608 Mockingbird Lane in Highland Park feels familiar, rest assured it is. (And not just because you’ve probably driven past it a million times going from “here to there” and back again.) The 1924 Dutch Colonial home with four bedrooms and two and half-baths has many qualities, inside and out, that…